Forward Deployed Engineer

Astrana Health

Embedded Engineer collaborating with clinical and operations teams to develop AI-driven tools for efficient healthcare delivery. Building production systems that prioritize patient care and drive operational success.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeMonterey Park • California, Nevada • 🇺🇸 United StatesJunior💰 $100,000 - $140,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You will embed directly within clinical, operations, and market teams and build systems that change how care is delivered and how the business performs.
In a given month, you might:
- Build an AI-driven tool to help care teams prioritize high-risk patients
- Automate a workflow that is currently manual and impacting revenue or cost
- Deploy an LLM-based system on top of messy clinical or claims data
- Create internal tools that providers and operators rely on every day
This role is about shipping real systems that work in the real world - not prototypes or isolated experiments.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience building and deploying production systems
Strong technical fundamentals and problem-solving ability
Preferred: B.S., M.S., PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field
1-3 years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, ML, AI, or related fields (flexible for exceptional candidates)
*We are open to exceptional new graduates and early-career engineers who demonstrate strong builder instincts and high potential.*

Benefits

Comp & perks

This position operates under a hybrid work model, with a combination of in-office and remote work each week. Office locations include Monterey Park, CA; Orange County, CA; and Las Vegas, NV.
The target salary range is **$100,000 - $140,000**, with potential for equity participation. Final compensation will be based on geographic location, experience, and overall qualifications.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Machine LearningArtificial IntelligenceSoftware EngineeringData EngineeringProblem-SolvingTechnical Fundamentals

Soft Skills

Builder InstinctsCollaboration